Towing a trailer - the law

[biosurf]

Yo all
Just oing a bit of research and found this handbook about the law around what trailers you can tow based on your standard driving license. In case its of use to anyone

www.dft.gov.uk/dvla/~/media/pdf/leaflets/INF30.ashx

[gwh200]

Blimey...what a minefield. I have cat D and cat D+E. I can (I think), get out of bed on tbd morning and be licenced for it.

[che2318]

i can drive anything except tracked vehicles.

thanks to the Army for supplying me license.

[biosurf]

Blimey...what a minefield. I have cat D and cat D+E. I can (I think), get out of bed on tbd morning and be licenced for it.

I passed after 1997 so I can drive cars, quads and tow a trailer up to 750kg and feck all else!!!

[gwh200]

i can drive anything except tracked vehicles.

thanks to the Army for supplying me license.

I can drive tracked vehicles though...these rules and regs are MUCH too complex.

[biosurf]

I can drive kacked vehicles though...these rules and regs are poo complex.

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[Rustinho]

Always good to get confirmation that what I thought was the case is actually true. Thanks for posting.

Absolutely no mention of either motorcycles pulling trailers or the rather interesting combination I've seen plodding around locally - an electric invalid carriage/buggy/scooter towing a trailer...

Best I can find quickly for motorbikes:

http://www.watsonian-squire.com/trailer_law.htm

Found some nice funky looking single wheel motorcycle trailers while I was looking for that!

(EDIT: I love how they give the leaflet the "crystal mark" for being easy to understand! The leaflet might well be easy to understand but why they thought the way they implemented everything is a good idea is anybody's guess!)

[Surf01]

If you look on your V5 document, you will notice quite a few fields left blank notably the one regarding the maximum weight of the vehicle. This puts the Surf into a grey area therefore you could legally tow a unit with a width up to 8'. Normally the towing vehicle has to be over 3501kg to tow a unit this wide.